Maninblack4612
Tour Winner
Looking back through my last 20 scores showed that the PCC was a minus more often than a plus on my bleak, windswept course. For example, last Saturday there was a stiff breeze blowing which put around four of the par fours out of range, & I hit it further than average for my handicap. The was no PCC increase. I reckon that, without the wind, I would have been at least three shots better, I don't think the wind helped me much at all.
Some of our low handicap players won't play in medals if conditions are bad, wanting to preserve their low handicaps. One, who plays in elite singles opens, swears that the PCC is invariably higher in those events when tough conditions prevail. He gets criticised for "protecting his handicap" but is he? To me it's more an indication that the system for calculating PCC doesn't work.
Is the problem the fact that the higher handicaps have too much influence on the PCC? For example, someone off a high index who barely gets the ball airborne, is unlikely to be badly effected by wind yet his score is part of the calculation of PCC.
Whatever the problem, the fact is that a person can maintain a lower index by choosing carefully the conditions in which he plays. This shouldn't be possible.
Some of our low handicap players won't play in medals if conditions are bad, wanting to preserve their low handicaps. One, who plays in elite singles opens, swears that the PCC is invariably higher in those events when tough conditions prevail. He gets criticised for "protecting his handicap" but is he? To me it's more an indication that the system for calculating PCC doesn't work.
Is the problem the fact that the higher handicaps have too much influence on the PCC? For example, someone off a high index who barely gets the ball airborne, is unlikely to be badly effected by wind yet his score is part of the calculation of PCC.
Whatever the problem, the fact is that a person can maintain a lower index by choosing carefully the conditions in which he plays. This shouldn't be possible.